Restaurants

Wild Cherry

Locals love this café run by members of the London Buddhist Centre, and flock here for weekday lunches and the leisurely Saturday all-day breakfast. It’s easy to...

Bethnal Green: 241-245 Globe Road, E2 0JD

Distance: 0.4 mls

Morgan Arms

When much of the point of chains is to offer uniform standards, it’s curious that this outlet of Geronimo Inns is our favourite by such a margin. It’s popular with...

Bow: 43 Morgan Street, E3 5AA

Distance: 0.4 mls

Orange Room Café

In an area around Mile End station swamped with uninspiring kebab and chicken shops, the Orange Room Café is a treat: a charming, ramshackle Lebanese restaurant...

Bow: 63 Burdett Road, E3 4TN

Distance: 0.5 mls

Nando's

How fast does fast food have to be? Dishes come pretty quickly here, but the addition of Mediterranean decor, real crockery, wooden tables and floor-staff puts...

Whitechapel: 9-25 Mile End Road, E1 4TW

Distance: 0.6 mls

Pavilion Café

In August 2007, tea merchant Rob Green and Australian chef Brett Redman transformed this park café overlooking Victoria Park’s lake. It now serves a menu of organic...

Victoria Park: Victoria Park, Crown Gate West, E9 7DE

Distance: 1.4 mls

Kolapata

In recent years Kolapata – ‘banana leaf’ in Bengali – has been the leading destination to experience Bangladeshi cooking in London. The restaurant is modest,...

Whitechapel: 222 Whitechapel Road, E1 1BJ

Distance: 0.7 mls

G Kelly

Bethnal Green: 414 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0DJ

Distance: 0.7 mls

Nando's

Bethnal Green: 366 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0AH

Distance: 0.8 mls

G Kelly

Bow: 526 Roman Road, E3 5ES

Distance: 0.8 mls

Raizes

On turning up at Raizes, we were faced with the ultimate Brazilian experience. It was the local capoeira club's annual dinner and there were 20-plus lissom hardbodies...

Bethnal Green: 460 Hackney Rd, E2 9EG

Distance: 0.8 mls

Tai Pan

Tai Pan has been open for business for well over 16 years - before Canary Wharf became so popular with big businesses moving out from Central London. In fact this...

Wapping: 665 Commercial Road Limehouse , London, E14 7LW

Distance: 0.8 mls

Royal Wok

Mainland Chinese food in Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green: 507 Hackney Rd, E2 9ED

Distance: 0.8 mls

Bistrotheque

This modish restaurant, bar and cabaret venue is just as popular with regular diners as it is with the fashion crowd, largely thanks to the fact that everyone is...

Bethnal Green: 23-27 Wadeson Street, E2 9DR

Distance: 0.8 mls

Empress of India

Smart gastropub or upmarket neighbourhood restaurant? We’re not quite sure, but at 6.45pm on a Friday, the Empress, despite its mosaic tile floor, lofty ceilings and...

Hackney: 130 Lauriston Road, E9 7LH

Distance: 0.9 mls

Fish House

The Fish House formula of retro-stylish takeaway chippie juxtaposed with table-service restaurant is mostly successful. The two elements are kept separate, physically...

Victoria Park: 126-128 Lauriston Road, E9 7LH

Distance: 0.9 mls

E Pellicci

Not just a caff, but a social club, taxi drivers’ meeting room and unofficial matchmaking service, E Pellicci has been warmly welcoming customers since 1900. The...

Bethnal Green: 332 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0AG

Distance: 0.9 mls

S&R Kelly

Few London restaurants can match the city's last remaining pie and mash shops for simple authenticity. Their menu has altered little since the mid 19th century: a...

Bethnal Green: 284 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0AG

Distance: 0.9 mls

East is East

This is an Indian restaurant where you and your stylish friends will feel just right - well fed and well cared-for in terrific surroundings. The dining room is bright,...

Whitechapel: 230 Commercial Road , London, E1 2NB

Distance: 0.9 mls

Namo

Charming young waitresses patter around attending to diners at this modest little café, sister to Huong-Viet in Dalston . The surroundings are mellow if slightly...

Victoria Park: 178 Victoria Park Road, E9 7HD

Distance: 1 mls

G Kelly

Bow: 600 Roman Road, E3 2RW

Distance: 1 mls

Needoo Grill

Budget Pakistani in Whitechapel

Whitechapel: 87 New Rd, E1 1HH

Distance: 1 mls